Gerald Scarfe’s cartoon for the Sunday Times, published the weekend before her funeral, seemed to strike a chord and has proved his most popular for some time with both the public and media, with many requests for its use, as well as our best first week sales for prints.
Mr Scarfe’s large retrospective exhibition which has been running in Cesky Krumlov in the Czech Republic for the last few months, is moving to the beautiful Kampa Museum in Prague in June 2013 and will run there until September. The Museum is situated on the eastern bank of the Kampa Island on the River Vltava.
Los Angeles Opera are reviving their 1993 production of The Magic Flute, with original set and costumes designed by Gerald Scarfe, as part of their 2013/14 season. Opening night will be 23rd November. For more information on ticket sales please contact Los Angeles Opera direct.
The major exhibition of Gerald Scarf’e's work, currently showing at the prestigious Egon Schiele Gallery and museum in Cesky Krumlov in the Czech Republic has now been extended until December due to popular demand. For further details of the exhibition go to the Gallery web site – www.schieleartcentrum.cz.
Gerald’s iconic drawing of Margaret Thatcher as the ‘Torydactyl’ inspired David Martill, a Portsmouth University palaeontologist, to name the newly discovered cousin of the pterodactyl after him. The new pterosaur species has been called Cuspicephalus scarfi, because the fossil’s unusually pointy head reminded Dr Martill of the cartoon.
